Stables, including Nos. 1 and 2, Stable Cottages. is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Stables.

Stables, including Nos. 1 and 2, Stable Cottages.

WRENN ID
sunken-steeple-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1985
Type
Stables
Address
Stables, including Nos. 1 and 2, Stable Cottages., Waddesdon Manor Grounds, Waddesdon, HP18 0JH
OS grid reference
SP 734 167
Coordinates
51.8444, -0.93591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stables, including Nos. 1 and 2, Stable Cottages, were built around 1880, likely by H.A. Destailleur for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. They are designed in a 16th to 17th century French style and consist of stables and coach-houses with two cottages arranged around three sides of a courtyard, with a wall on the fourth side and projecting cottage pavilions. The building is roughcast with red brick and stone dressings, featuring steeply pitched slate roofs with sprocketted eaves and brick chimneys with offset heads.

The structure is one storey with an attic, resting on a brick plinth with moulded stone coping. It has brick pilasters with stone capitals and a moulded stone cornice. The left wing has ten bays with coach-houses that have double doors and fanlights set in segmental arches. The right wing features similar arches but has more irregular doors and windows for the stables. The far range has four bays with double doors flanking central windows. The attic includes dormer windows with brick side scrolls, stone voussoirs, and pediments, while the right wing has simpler intermediate dormers. The central dormer of the far range is made of stone and features panelled pilasters, a carved badge of five crossed arrows in a broken segmental pediment, and a clock instead of a window.

The two-storey cottage pavilions are more elaborate, showcasing stone quoining, a plinth, a band course, a cornice, and window surrounds that extend through both storeys. The front has two bays of sash windows, with one bay on each side; the lower windows have panelled aprons, and the dormers are framed in shouldered stone architrave surrounds with pediments above. The doors are located on the inner sides.

A wall across the front of the courtyard is made of brick with a stone plinth, featuring a simple entablature and banded pilasters, each adorned with a carved stone mask-head bracket. There are rusticated gate piers with a panelled frieze and moulded capitals. The far range includes an attached cast iron water pump with a stone basin.

Local climate

Stables, including Nos. 1 and 2, Stable Cottages. receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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